The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future"In prehistorical times, Eisler argues, women and men lived together in egalitarian communities devoted to nurturance; with the imposition of male domination, female values gave way to creeds of hierarchy, aggression, power, obedience. Eisler, a futurist, posits a new society based on the recovery of more humane values."--From Library journal (6/1/85). |
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... effective technologies of destruc- tion . Metallurgy and Male Supremacy In that classic Marxist work The Origin of the Family , Private Property , and the State , Friedrich Engels was one of the first to link the emergence of ...
... effective technologies of destruc- tion . Metallurgy and Male Supremacy In that classic Marxist work The Origin of the Family , Private Property , and the State , Friedrich Engels was one of the first to link the emergence of ...
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... effective technologies of destruction , that played such a critical part in what Engels termed " the world historical defeat of the female sex . " 15 Nor did male dominance become the norm in Western prehistory , as Engels implies ...
... effective technologies of destruction , that played such a critical part in what Engels termed " the world historical defeat of the female sex . " 15 Nor did male dominance become the norm in Western prehistory , as Engels implies ...
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... effectively deal with our mounting global problems . The first obstacle is that the models of reality required to ... effective . The Totalitarian Solution When their elected leaders fail to solve economic , social , and po- litical ...
... effectively deal with our mounting global problems . The first obstacle is that the models of reality required to ... effective . The Totalitarian Solution When their elected leaders fail to solve economic , social , and po- litical ...
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